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Essay on History of Oracle
Oracle Corporation is one of the world’s major software companies and a top supplier of database-management systems. Oracle database programs allow large corporations and government agencies to supervise, contact, and store huge amounts of information on various computer systems from sales reports to customer lists to airline reservations. Oracle also makes tools for software developers and software to manage information on servers. The company is based in Redwood Shores, California. Lawrence J. Ellison, Robert N. Miner, and Edward Oates founded System Development Laboratories in 1977 to develop database programs for computers. Ellison had worked at a company that developed the first mainframe computer compatible with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) computers. In his new company’s early days, Ellison noticed that IBM was developing database programs called relational databases and set about to develop his own versions. System Development Laboratories beat IBM to the market in 1979 with the Oracle RDBMS (relational database management system), the first commercial product to use Structured Query Language (SQL). SQL is now a standard in database products.
In June 1970, Dr E F Codd published a paper entitled A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. This relational model, sponsored by IBM, then came to be acknowledged as the definitive model for relational database management systems RDBMS. The language developed by IBM to control the data stored within Codd's model was originally called Structured English Query Language, or SEQUEL, with the word 'English' later being dropped in favor Structured Query Language SQL. In 1979 a company called Relational Software, Inc. released the first commercially available implementation of SQL. Relational Software later came to be known as Oracle Corporation.You'll find versions of Oracle8 available for many of today's popular computing environments, in particular Windows, UNIX and Linux. This is one of the reasons why it's so popular, and luckily for us as developers, doesn't make that much of a difference which platform it is running on. (Nelson, Lee J.)....
